At least 44 people were killed in twin bomb
blasts in the central Nigerian city of Joe,the
country's main relief agency said on Monday
after a bloody week of violence blamed on
Boko Haram.
"At the moment we have 44 dead bodies and
47 others injured from the scene of the two
attacks,said Mohammed Abdusalam from the
National Emergency Management Agency (Nema)
Earlier police in Plateau state of which Jos
is the capital said at least 18 people had lost
their lives in Sunday night's attacks at a shopping
complex and near a popular omsque,
Discrepancies in death tolls are not unusual
in Nigeria,The police,military and government
authorities have a previously downplayed death
tolls in the Boko Haram insurgency,
There was no immediate claim of responsible
for the attacks but religiouly divided Joe has
been targeted before by the Islamist Militants,
Plateau which falls on the dividing line between
Nigeria's mainly Christian south and mostly
Muslim north, has also seen waves of sectarian
violence that has killed thousands over the last
decade,
Boko Haram has stepped up its attack in northern
since the inaugutation of President Mohammed
Buhari on May 29 with a wave of raids explosions
and suicide bombing,
With the latest attacks more than 500 people
have been killed ,according to AFP reporting
On Sunday a suicide bomber blew himself up
inside a church in the city of Potiskum in Yobe
State ,northern Nigeria killing five worshipers,
Last week ,Islamist militants fighters raided
a number of villages around the Lake Chad
area ,killing more than 150 people as they
prepare in mosque
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